Alabama notebook: Saban reaches out to family

1:43 AM,
Oct. 11, 2012

Written by

Mark Edwards
Special to the Advertiser

Alabama coach Nick Saban sent a letter to the family of a North Carolina high school coach who died Sept. 30, earning gratitude from the man's family.

Mike Crowell, 52, coached the wrestling team at South Davidson High in Denton, N.C., for 25 years. He also spent five seasons as the school's head football coach. Crowell was a big Alabama fan, and his students turned to Twitter, trying to get the Tide head coach to come to the school's homecoming game Friday.